Out of curiosity, I entered as many of the major Studio Ghibli movies as I could remember.
Castle in the Sky (Laputa): 7.5
My Neighbor Totoro: 7.9
Howl's Moving Castle: 7.8
Kiki's Delivery Service: 7.3
Spirited Away: 7.9
Porco Rosso: 7.3
Grave of the Fireflies: 7.8
Ponyo: 7.3
The Cat Returns: 6.9
The Secret World of Arrietty (Almost forgot this one): 6.9

Predator is a great film, it's entertaining, over the top and so damn quotable. Alien and Aliens are amazing films, I love them too.

However, after the first two Alien films the franchise plummets (in my opinion). Alien 3 and Resurrection are bad (that's the word for them I guess). Prometheus was sloppy but had flashes of being something solid (Fassbender and Rapace were the shit in it, the effects were great, soundtrack is solid), it was just offset by a flat out terrible script. It's at least watchable compared to the other two bad Alien movies. The original script draft for Prometheus is much better, it's a shame it wasn't picked instead of the actual script.

The Predator series never reaches a really bad point (in my opinion), Predator 2 is a solid, fun but underrated film. Sure, it's not as great as the first one, it's different than the first one in a positve way and it's a worthy sequel. Predators was fun, again, not as great as the first two Predator films, but not bad.

Just going to leave out the two AvP films, those are terrible and we should not speak of them.

More aggressive than passive on average, I GM on default. Sometimes passive if being aggressive for others (sometimes even a GM needs a damn break). But refuse to play with full-passive partners. If I feel I'm picking up your slack, then be prepared to encounter Grumpy Predator™.

Huh! Didn't think I would find a topic near the top that discusses something so dear to me.

While I agree on the Predator movies and their awesome attributes, I feel the first AVP movie gets too much of a bad rap.

Don't get me wrong. Overall, it was bad. It has plot holes, bad science & history facts, dim lighting, sub-par fight scenes, et al. it is an embarrassment.

But damn. Predator got the girl. If only Paul Anderson didn't try to inject some newfangled story into it and instead did a book-to-film conversion of Aliens vs Predator: Prey. The book is considered the 'Yautja Bible' for Yautja fans and boldly began the path of fleshing out the Predator concept to make the titular movie monster part of an actual species. Kind of like Star Wars and Star Trek have done with their own in-universe alien species.

The second movie? Requiem? Pure. Fucking. Garbage. The 'directors' have made it known they have a fetish for torturing pregnant women. The movie was suppose to be an F-U into Anderson's face for allowing the first movie to be rated PG-13. The Strauss Brothers did gore and violence for the sake of appeasing the lowest common denominator fanboy.

I'll just drop this here:

A perfect example of how studio stupidity and fanboy obsession can ruin cinema. Keith BreeseFilmcritic.com

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Just eye candy. That they used a major studio release as a medium for brainless eye candy is a complete waste of film roll.

However, after the first two Alien films the franchise plummets (in my opinion). Alien 3 and Resurrection are bad (that's the word for them I guess). Prometheus was sloppy but had flashes of being something solid (Fassbender and Rapace were the shit in it, the effects were great, soundtrack is solid), it was just offset by a flat out terrible script. It's at least watchable compared to the other two bad Alien movies. The original script draft for Prometheus is much better, it's a shame it wasn't picked instead of the actual script.

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These movies are watchable but that's about it. For AVP: Requiem, I have never sat down and watched the entire thing. I have a five dollar copy from a Wal-Mart bin still wrapped in cellophane. I refused to pay full price for it when it came out.

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My Usual Online Time:

Pretty much all the time.

Writing Levels:

Adept, Advanced

Genders You Prefer Playing:

Male

Playing Style- Passive or Aggressive:

It depends. If my partner has a good plot, and I'm enthusiastic, I generally try not to step on the toes of their artistic vision, while keeping it fun for the both of us. However, I do enjoy providing my ideas and leading. However, that does not mean I'm going to carry your sorry ass through an rp.

I come here to get my feet off the ground and have some fun. Slice-of-life is typically too boring and limiting for me, unless there is something compelling in the plot, and I don't do "dark" rps simply for the sake of them being "dark". Modern media has also pretty much ruined vampires, werewolves, and fairytales for me. A fairytale with a "dark twist" is the bane of my existence.

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